Nasta v. United States

HAND, Circuit Judge.

The ten libellants filed a libel to recover for injuries to the skin and eyes-suffered by them while at work on a ship of the United States, withdrawn from active service and in the possession of a contractor, to be conditioned for possible future service. Judge Knox tried! the case, and dismissed the libel in an opinion, reported in 181 F.Supp. 906, which sets forth the facts at length. The libel contained two claims: (1) that the United States in delivering the ship to-the contractor’s employees implied that she was seaworthy: that is, safe for work to be done; and (2)…